Hacker News: mwkaufma

New comment by mwkaufma in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

mwkaufma — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:05:11 +0000

"on a galactic timescale, the prices haven't risen at all..."

New comment by mwkaufma in "Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution"

mwkaufma — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:11:21 +0000

Bait headline.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Steam Machine launches today"

mwkaufma — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:47:41 +0000

All caps doesn't make it true.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Steam Machine launches today"

mwkaufma — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:45:24 +0000

Steam machine is not locked into the steam client. You can install whatever you want.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Steam Machine launches today"

mwkaufma — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:38:51 +0000

PS5 sells at a loss & makes up the difference collecting rent on a closed system. With Steam you're buying an open system.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

mwkaufma — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:07:49 +0000

Footnote 6 "How is this different from struct in C#" is inaccurate. Since the article is littered with AI-generated images, I assume the writing, or at least the research, is littered with hallucinations?

New comment by mwkaufma in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

mwkaufma — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:15:02 +0000

Tim Ferris bemoaning AI in self-help books is like John Henry vs. the drilling machine, except for bullshitting instead of driving rail road spikes.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

mwkaufma — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:08:15 +0000

Grifter publishing-slop sector devastated by slop automation.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

mwkaufma — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:11:57 +0000

Usually you do "pointer-fixup" where you convert them to relative-offsets on write and then back to absolute-offsets on read.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Metamodernism: The cultural philosophy of the digital age"

mwkaufma — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:38:44 +0000

Good thing I read the article, otherwise that would have been really biting

New comment by mwkaufma in "Metamodernism: The cultural philosophy of the digital age"

mwkaufma — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Meta/post/neo-blankism is just taxonomy, the lowest form of analysis/criticism.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Every Frame Perfect"

mwkaufma — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:27:02 +0000

The thing about UI animation is that even if no tween frame was ever hinky I'd still turn it off because it's an anti-pattern. It's there to look good on a retail shelf, not to improve day to day usage.

New comment by mwkaufma in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

mwkaufma — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:10:04 +0000

I was trying to appeal to OPs maladaptive "C++ that looks like C is more legitimate" aesthetic preference, haha.

New comment by mwkaufma in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

mwkaufma — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:39:26 +0000

If you know you want bytes -- A void* of unknown provenance cast to anything other than char* is UB so just skip the middleman and use char*.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

mwkaufma — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:17:23 +0000

Another breathless sales pitch selling pickaxes to miners, but where's the gold? Where's the incredible product that the chatbots-talking-to-chatbots over git generating LOC heaps have actually _created_? I just don't see it.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

mwkaufma — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:43:16 +0000

>> While the intent is not to call for competing proposals, we believe that now is a good time to discuss and propose alternative proposals as well.

lol

>> For example, rather than proposing one single concrete JIT implementation, it may make more sense for the PEP to describe a JIT infrastructure that can support multiple implementation strategies.

poison-pill requirement

>> We are setting a window of six months for a PEP to be submitted and resolved. If no such PEP is accepted within that window, the JIT code must be removed from the main branch

so it's going to be removed from the main branch

New comment by mwkaufma in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

mwkaufma — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:29:45 +0000

$$ taking another circular financing lap.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mwkaufma — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:59 +0000

Smokescreen of highly-contingent analysis and appeals to authority over a premotivated-conclusion.

New comment by mwkaufma in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

mwkaufma — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:46:27 +0000

See: cbloom's rant on quantization for deeper investigation: https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2020/09/topics-in-quantizat...

"While in theory there are cases where you might want to use either type of quantization, if you are in games don't do that!

The reason is that the GPU standard for UNORM colors has chosen "centered" quantization, so you should do that too."

New comment by mwkaufma in "The dead economy theory"

mwkaufma — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:51:44 +0000

Leading with genAI slop art, prepared for a slop article.